The Butcher is a 2006

horror film Horror is a film genre that seeks to elicit fear or disgust in its audience for entertainment purposes. Horror films often explore dark subject matter and may deal with transgressive topics or themes. Broad elements include monsters, apoca ...

directed by Edward Gorsuch. It centers on a group of teenagers who discover a murderer living in the middle of nowhere after crashing their car.

Plot

Six college friends embark on a road trip to Las Vegas, and during a foolish and unfamiliar shortcut, become involved in a serious car accident in a small, unknown town. One of the girls in the vehicle dies, and is accompanied by a friend while the others go looking for help in the small town. They find an old house in the woods, which is inhabited by a family of psychopaths, who proceed to chase and hunt down the group of kids.

Cast

Catherine Wreford Catherine Anne Wreford (born June 26, 1980) is a Canadian actress, dancer and singer. Early life Wreford was born in Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada in June 1980. She graduated from Kelvin High School and later trained at the Royal Winnipeg Ballet. ...

as Rachel *

Tom Nagel Tom Nagel (born October 27, 1980) is an American actor noted for his roles in direct-to-video films, such as '' The Butcher'', ''The Apocalypse'', ''Pirates of Treasure Island'', and '' Hillside Cannibals''. According to IMDb, Nagel left the U. ...

as Adam * Myiea Coy as Sophie *

Alan Ritchson Alan Michael Ritchson (born November 28, 1982) is an American actor, model, singer and songwriter. He made his acting debut as Aquaman / Arthur Curry on The CW superhero series ''Smallville'' (2005–2010), where he appeared as a guest star betw ...

as Mark * Ashley Hawkins as Atlanta * Tiffany Kristensen as Liz * Annie MacKay as Angel **Conner Gorsuch as Little Angel * Bill Jacobson as Franklin Mayhew *

Hazell Dean Hazell Dean ( Poole; born 27 October 1952) is an English dance-pop singer, who achieved her biggest success in the 1980s as a leading Hi-NRG artist. She is best known for the top-ten hits in the United Kingdom "Searchin' (I Gotta Find a Man)", ...

as Sarah * April Lang as Mrs. Mayhew * Nick Stellate as Sheriff *

Pej Vahdat Pejman "Pej" Vahdat ( ) is an American actor known for his role of Arastoo Vaziri in ''Bones'' from 2009 to 2017. In 2022, Vahdat was cast as Dex Dexter for the fifth season of the CW reboot series ''Dynasty''. Career Before his acting caree ...

as Chip * April Gilbert as Sarah

Reception

Mitchell Hattaway, writing for

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, gave a negative review. He said that "''The Butcher'' was shot on cheap digital videotape, and the disc's transfer is flat, dull, and noisy. There is little channel separation in the stereo soundtrack, and dialogue sounds tinny and canned. An assortment of previews is the only bonus feature. I would be remiss if I didn't give the filmmakers props for their one original idea: I'm pretty sure this is the only movie in the history of cinema in which a character is killed by being drowned in a bathtub filled with strawberry Nestlé's Quik. Eat your heart out, Mr. Hitchcock." ''HorrorTalk'' wrote that "Right off the bat, The Butcher is going to be a love-it or hate-it film for most, due to the fact that its sole purpose of being nothing more than a torture horror film at its most basic level."

DreadCentral Dread Central is an American website founded in 2006 that is dedicated to horror news, interviews, and reviews. It covers horror films, comics, novels, and toys. Dread Central has won the Rondo Hatton Classic Horror Award for Best Website f ...

wrote that: "Originally entitled The Harvest, Lionsgate realized that was just too generic and changed it to the almost nearly as generic The Butcher. Considering the film doesn't seem to have an original idea in its body or any intention of even trying to come up with an original idea or the ability to do anything even remotely creative with its recycled material, a more fitting title would have been The Nevada Wrong Turn Massacre."

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* 2006 horror films Direct-to-video horror films 2006 films 2000s English-language films {{2000s-horror-film-stub